About Samuel Singer
Lived 1920 – 1989 (aged 69). Samuel Singer was a British cleric.
Samuel Stanfield Singer (2 May 1920 – 13 November 1989) was a Scottish episcopal clergyman who was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.
Career
Singer was born on 2 May 1920. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained a deacon in 1943, and as a priest in 1944. Following a curacy at Christ Church, Derriaghy, Northern Ireland, he was a Minor Canon at Down Cathedral from 1945 until 1947.
After another curacy in Wirksworth, Singer was Vicar of Middleton, Derbyshire, then Rector of All Saints, Glasgow. He was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987. Singer died on 13 November 1989.
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Who was Samuel Singer?
Scottish episcopal clergyman and Dean of Glasgow and Galloway (1920–1989)
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Samuel Singer was born on 2 May 1920.
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Samuel Singer died on 13 November 1989.
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Samuel Singer was a cleric.
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Samuel Singer was British.
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